Lot 13

Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Reports,

lot of 2. Both Washington (DC): G.P.O., small 4to, illustrated green cloth boards with gilt highlights. Includes the 12th Annual Report for 1890-91, publ. 1894, 741 pp. AND 20th Annual Report for 1898-99, publ. 1908, 237 pp. These reports by Cyrus Thomas and W.H. Holmes deal with mounds & earthworks and aboriginal pottery in the eastern U.S. Thomas's work was instrumental in disproving the racially motivated "Mound-builder Myth," demonstrating conclusively that these were the work of Native Americans and not some other lost race. Holmes work was the first attempt to classify prehistoric pottery in the eastern U.S. Both are very important, even seminal, works in the new field of North American archaeology with many wonderful color & B&W plates and maps.

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designed with multicolored beads in a beautiful floral pattern, accented with various shades of similar colors; beaded looped fringe, two machine-braded handles connected by a knotted ball at top; 7" high x 7" wide.
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copy silver print of a photo by William R. Cross, at Fort Randall, 1882. Original lower margin caption included in photograph, No. 1 in a series published by Bailey, Dix & Mead, Fort Randall, D.T.
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made of wood with leather covering laced to drum. Openings between lacings are painted blue and pale terra cotta; drum has a leather handle. Tag states that drum was purchased near Albuquerque, N.M. in 1919; approximately 9.5" diameter.
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ca 1925. Includes a pair with thread-sewn beadwork in colors of red-orange, electric blue, green, yellow, and clear in a design of a rectangle filled with a zigzag pattern on the vamps and two small tabs on either side of rectangle, small triangles fill a band along the soles, 10" long; AND a pair ...
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has two bands of floral beadwork along the outer edge and in the middle. Bead colors include blue, cobalt, green, red, and white; scabbard ends in fine twisted fringe and has additional fringe near the band; 45" long with fringe.
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is painted in colors of red, blue, yellow and green with geometrics outlined in black. Edges are bound in old green wool that is laced onto bag with thread, some original hide laced in one corner. Flap has four holes for leather ties underneath. Handle or hanging strap also of leather, length 15.5" ...
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made of smoked leather, with deep sea-green beadwork border. One side has greasy yellow and red stepped triangles and other side has great flag with 48 stars. Edge and sides of bag are beaded in a striped pattern of same colors. Bag has rawhide-wrapped strips in flag colors, woven to replicate a sty...
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